The construction of an ethnic or racial identity is considered an important developmental
milestone for youth of color. This review summarizes research on links between ethnic and …

A female advantage in school marks is a common finding in education research, and it
extends to most course subjects (eg, language, math, science), unlike what is found on …

Despite shifting demographic trends, research on motivation generally remains focused on
European American, middle-class, educated samples, calling into question its utility and …

One point of intersection in ethnic and racial identity research is the conceptual attention
paid to how positively youth feel about their ethnicity or race, or positive ethnic–racial affect …

The self-conscious emotions (SCE) of guilt, shame, pride, and embarrassment are moral
emotions, which motivate adherence to social norms and personal standards and emerge in …

Few studies include associations of emotions, or of individual differences in emotionality, to
academic competence, and there are virtually no empirical data on when or why relations …

Using a social ecological understanding of resilience, this position paper explores how
schools in different contexts and across cultures influence student resilience by providing …

Many studies have examined the effects of neighbourhoods on educational outcomes. The
results of these studies are often conflicting, even if the same independent variables (such …

Over the last 20 years, ethnic/racial identity (ERI) has been regarded as a component central
to identity for minority students, and often proposed to be positively associated with …

A little more than a century ago, the famous social scientist WEB Du Bois asserted that a true
understanding of African American offending must be grounded in the" real conditions" of …